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Lon's Fort

Lon's Fort

we find ourselves by looking out at what looks back

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Aug 20, 2023
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Lon’s Fort always seems to sit, not only at the absolute centre of its surrounding geography in the limestone mountains of North Clare, but also, somehow at the centre of time itself, as if holding a physical conversation between the land itself before any human settlement; the long generations who lived within its walls and worked amongst its fields an…

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